Could it be a bad zip?  Have you conuirmed it actually works elsewhere?

(just asking because I just lost zip disk recently... 100 megs of BACKUP
files go byebye :()

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On Sun, 5 Mar 2000, Steven Rubenstein wrote:

> thanks for the reply, but same thing happens... 
> hmmm...
> 
> --- linda hanigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi
> > don't you want either
> > mount -t msdos /dev/hdd /mnt/floppy.
> > or
> > mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt/floppy.
> >          Linda
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Steven Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 2:46 PM
> > Subject: ide zip drive mount problem
> > 
> > 
> > > you know, i have this here ide (fat-formatted) zip
> > > drive installed as a slave to my hard disk, and i
> > know
> > > i've been able to access it through linux before
> > > simply by doing a mount, seemingly:
> > >
> > > "mount -t umsdos /dev/hdd /mnt/floppy."
> > >
> > > anyway, now when i try to mount it, the zip lip
> > > lights, so i'm pretty sure i have the right device
> > > (hdd), but then red hat 6.1 tells me:
> > >
> > > "mount:  wrong fs system type, bad option, bad
> > > superblock on hda, or too many mounted file
> > systems"
> > >
> > > the only thing i can figure is that before when i
> > > mounted it, the windows i have in another
> > partition
> > on
> > > the same hard disk was formatted fat, whereas now
> > it's
> > > formatted ntfs, causing this "superblock" problem
> > > (whatever a superblock is...)
> > >
> > > any ideas?
> > >
> > > thanks!
> > >
> > > --sjr
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